Abstract:The Crying of Lot 49 overlays its obsession with delivery systems, cycles, and inheritance on its choice of protagonist, a young married woman propelled forward by a history that seems unreal into a future marked by simulacra. This lens allows for a reading of Crying wherein the search for meaning is gendered by Oedipa's bodily potentiality and her interactions with the world around her. Beginning with her return from the Tupperware party, her sexual gamble with Metzger, the novel's names, and its cyclic movement, Crying points to changing birth control technology and the ideological shifts this change both highlighted and circumvented. In this article, I use gender as a lens through which to examine Oedipa's historical and social position in Crying's Californian circuit. Furthermore, I argue that the text is driven by an anxiety over reproduction and replication. Internal and external, social factors at flux surround Oedipa with representations of meanings, institutional and structural meanings, and reproductive meanings that operate internally and externally, driving Oedipa along in her attempt to trace origins, track codes, and understand her own identity in a world of shifting reproductive choice. In this grammatical cacophony, the motifs of pregnancy and contraception, and themes, both economic and postal, highlight the way meaning refuses to mean, particularly in regard to Oedipa's identity in The Crying of Lot 49. (210)

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Oedipa Maas 夫人：第 49 批的哭泣中的母性、原创性和意义

摘要：The Crying of Lot 49 将其对交付系统、周期和继承的痴迷叠加在其对主角的选择上，一个年轻的已婚妇女被一段看似不真实的历史推动着进入以拟像为标志的未来。这个镜头允许阅读《哭泣》，其中对意义的寻找是由奥狄芭的身体潜力和她与周围世界的互动所决定的。从她从特百惠派对回来开始，她与梅茨格的性赌博，小说的名字，以及它的循环运动，哭泣指向改变节育技术和意识形态的转变，这种变化既突出又被规避。在这篇文章中，我将性别作为一个镜头，通过它来考察奥狄芭在《哭泣的加利福尼亚》巡回演出中的历史和社会地位。此外，我认为文本是由对复制和复制的焦虑驱动的。不断变化的内在和外在社会因素围绕着奥狄帕，表达了对内在和外在运作的意义、制度和结构意义以及再生意义，驱使奥狄帕试图追溯起源、追踪代码并理解她自己在一个世界中的身份生殖选择的转变。在这种语法不和谐的情况下，怀孕和避孕的主题以及经济和邮政主题突出了意义拒绝的方式，特别是在《哭泣的地段》49 中奥狄芭的身份方面。 (210) 以及在内部和外部运作的生殖意义，驱使 Oedipa 在不断变化的生殖选择的世界中试图追溯起源、追踪代码并了解自己的身份。在这种语法不和谐的情况下，怀孕和避孕的主题以及经济和邮政主题突出了意义拒绝的方式，特别是关于《哭泣的地段》第 49 章中奥狄芭的身份。 (210) 以及在内部和外部运作的生殖意义，驱使 Oedipa 在不断变化的生殖选择的世界中试图追溯起源、追踪代码并了解自己的身份。在这种语法不和谐的情况下，怀孕和避孕的主题以及经济和邮政主题突出了意义拒绝的方式，特别是在《哭泣的地段》49 中奥狄芭的身份方面。 (210)